Hi masti, On 7 August 2015 at 23:11, masti &lt;mastigm(a)gmail.com <mailto:mastigm@gmail.com>> wrote: weblinchecker.py working file deadlinks-wikipedia-pl.dat has a binary format in core. In Compat it was a text file. This confuses me. As far as I can see, both compat and core use 'pickle' to write the working file (and as far as I can see, compat always has). There are, however, different versions of the pickle format, which could explain the binary/text difference. Could you post an excerpt of the old file?

the script works after copying it to the new directory but it looks it does not recognize information about previously reported links. Is there an error message posted, is the file just being overwritten, or is there some other kind of issue?

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(dp0 Vhttp:// www.european-athletics.org/european-athletics-awards-night/baldini-says-goo… p1

makes me think the script does not recognize properly old records.

On 8 August 2015 at 00:01, masti &lt;mastigm(a)gmail.com <mailto:mastigm@gmail.com>> wrote: (dp0 Vhttp://www.european-athletics.org/european-athletics-awards-night/baldini-… <http://www.european-athletics.org/european-athletics-awards-night/baldini-says-goodbye-at-the-giro-al-sas.html> p1 (...) This is indeed pickle format 1, representing a python dict that looks like: {u'http://www.european-athletics.org/european-athletics-awards-night/baldini-says-goodbye-at-the-giro-al-sas.html <http://www.european-athletics.org/european-athletics-awards-night/baldini-says-goodbye-at-the-giro-al-sas.html>': [(u'Stefano Baldini', 1404150662.121833, '404 Not Found'), (u'2010 w lekkoatletyce', 1404569856.34401, '404 Not Found')] } which is the same as the format I get when I run weblinkchecker now. But it tries to report deadlinks the were previously reported. So this makes me think the script does not recognize properly old records. Based on the code, I don't think there is a check for that. The code only checks if the talk page already contains the URL, and this is the same for both compat and core.